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What an Art Director Does: An Introduction to Motion Picture Production Design

What an Art Director Does: An Introduction to Motion Picture Production DesignAuthor: Ward Preston
Publisher: Silman-James Press
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 190
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.9 x 0.6

ISBN: 1879505185
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.430233
EAN: 9781879505186
ASIN: 1879505185

Publication Date: October 1994
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Customer Reviews:
5 out of 5 stars An excellent explaination of that "mystery" credit   July 28, 1996
23 out of 26 found this review helpful

For the art or architecture student who is into films and is still uncertain of a career direction, this book lays out the procedure and the challenges in becoming a motion picture art director or a production designer. While covering the "nuts and bolts" of the work, the messages are often driven home by war stories from the author's own experiences in the business. Easy Reading.


5 out of 5 stars Great resource!   September 30, 2007
video teacher (Ann Arbor, MI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I am a video production teacher and this book is an outstanding resource to teach kids what a career as an art director can entail. The chapters are clear and have great graphics and pictures to reinforce the information. My students who have used the book so far have enjoyed it.


4 out of 5 stars práctico y útil   November 22, 1998
jgorostiza@arquired.es (Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Islas Canarias))
9 out of 23 found this review helpful

Es un libro que explica bien el trabajo de los directores artísticos norteamericanos, su utilidad en otros países es más dudosa. Buenas ilustraciones, bien escrito.


3 out of 5 stars Thorough but Dated   July 28, 2008
L. Romel (united states)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This book covers a lot of ground and does a great job describing exactly what an art director does. However, the book was published in 1994. Technology in the past decade has dramatically changed the nature of film production, so a lot of the information in this book is very dated


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